Telephone head-gear.



T. RHODUS.

TELEPHONE HEAD GIFAR.

APPILICATION FILED ocT.1. m5.

Patented Feb. 6,1917.

a N- w m m w a m u m w P m s n a s P u n n o u z n 1 THOMAS RHODUS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE MAGNIPI-IONE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF ARIZONA.

TELEPHONE HEAD-GEAR.

Application filed October 7, 1915.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS RHoDUs, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook,

- State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Telephone Head-Gear, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that type of tele phone headgear or supports in which the holder is formed of semi-circular spring bands, and carries at one end an adustable holding means for the telephone receiver and at the other end an opposed bearing pad or button.

And the present improvement has for its object to provide a simple and eflicient structural formation and combination of parts, whereby a compact, nearly invisible and closely fitting formation of the holding means, and its adustable connection with the resilient head bands, is attained, with an avoidance of any projections which might catch in the hair of the user or in'other closely .adj acent objects, the formation at the same time permitting of an independent movement of the telephone receiver to attain an accurate position, with relation to the ear of the user, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1, is a perspective view, illustrating the general arrangement of parts in the present invention.

Fig. 2, is a detail section of the holding means of the telephone receiver and the adjustable connection of said means to the resilient head bands.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in both views.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates the ordinary semi-circular spring head bands adapted to fit over the crown of the users head. Said bands are preferably two in number and are arranged in adjustable separated relation as shown.

2 designates the usual bearing pad orbutton, pivotally attached, to one end of the head bands 1 in any usual and suitable manner.

3 designates a hub, preferably of a cylindrical form, and preferably slitted at one end to receive the ends of the head bands 1, opposite to the aforesaid bearing pad or button 2. Saidbands and hub are pivotally Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1917.. Serial No. 54,483.

connected together by a transverse rivet or pin 4, as shown.

5 designates the yoke shaped holder of the present structure, preferably of the semicircular form shown, having its flat side in alinement with the flat sides of the head bands, and provided with inturned end prongs 6, adapted for holding engagement in recesses or orifices, formed therefor in the opposite sides of the wall of a telephone recelver.

7 designates the attaching neck of the yoke shaped holder 5, preferably a separate cylindrical piece, slotted or recessed at the end to receive the central portion of the yoke body and pivoted thereto by a transverse pin or rivet as shown. In the present improvement the attaching neck 7 is formed with a screw threaded shank 8 at its upper end, adapted for both turning and vertical adjustments in a screw threaded. orifice 9, formed therefor in the lower end of the hub 3, above described. It is within the scope of this invention to reverse the location of the above described orifice and shank on the respective parts.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a head gear for telephone receivers, the combination of a head band having fiat sides, a yoke having flat sides adapted for engagement with a telephone receiver, and in termediate adjustable means adapted to vertically aline the flat side of said yoke with the flat side of one end of said head band, substantially as set forth.

2. In a head gear for telephone receivers, the combination of a head band, a hub formed with'a recess at one end for connection with said head band and provided with a central orifice in its other end, a transverse pin forming a pivotal connection between said hub and band, and a yoke adapted for engagement with a telephone receiver and having an attaching neck formed with a shank for turning engagement in the hub orifice aforesaid, substantially as set forth.

3. In a headgear for telephone receivers,- the combination of a resilient head band, a hub formed with a slotted end for connection with said head band and provided with a central screw-threaded orifice in its other end, a transverse pin forming a pivotal con nection between said huh and band and a yoke adapted for engagement with a telephone receiver and having an attaching neck formed with a central screw-threaded shank for engagement in the screw-threaded orifice of the hub aforesaid, substantially as set forth.

4. In a head gear for telephone receivers, the combination of a resilient head band having flat sides, and a yoke having flat 10 sides adapted for engagement with a tele- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for phone receiver and attached to said head band, said yoke having inturned end prongs formed integrally With the yoke, the flat sides of the yoke being in the same plane as the sides of the prongs, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 4th day of October 1915.

THOMAS RHODUS.

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